Balloon-borne planetary atmospheric sounder tested in the terrestrial environment

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Jan 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007acaau..60...96r&link_type=abstract

Acta Astronautica, Volume 60, Issue 2, p. 96-110.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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A prototype high altitude balloon payload dedicated to measuring wind characteristics, pressure and temperature in terrestrial atmospheric environments was developed as part of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Workforce Development Educational Grant. The WindSat as it became known was one of 15 conceptual projects suggested by various NASA agencies with this specific concept suggested by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The WindSat project was designed, built, and tested by the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (UCCS) Space Grant program to determine the feasibility of obtaining atmospheric weather in the upper and lower atmosphere for entry, descent, and landing of planetary missions. In the first phase of the project described in this paper, the payload was designed for and tested in the terrestrial environment of Earth. The prototype is similar to a radiosonde in function; however, the prototype logs data at a frequency of 1 Hz to determine relative gusts and also records values on both ascent and descent through the atmosphere. Some preliminary results from the first two test flights of WindSat are given in this paper.

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